Kolkata, Nov. 2 -- West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday announced that 250,000 members of the Dalit Matua community who came to India from Bangladesh as refugees will be issued citizenship certificates under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) by December 31. Addressing the International Matua Gosai Convention 2026 in Thakurnagar of North 24 Parganas district, Adhikari said these people would be enrolled as voters during fresh enumeration starting in January 2027. "250,000 Matua brothers and sisters have filed petitions for citizenship certificates. Their applications will be cleared by December 31. So far 25,000 Matuas have got the certificates. Most of them belong to the Scheduled Caste (SC) communities but many are yet to receive their caste certificates. I asked the chief secretary a month ago to issue those," Adhikari said. "When all this is over, the names of all these people will be included in the voters' list". Adhikari urged the Matuas to be vigilant about the INDIA bloc and Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)-led movement alleging tampering of electoral rolls and demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar. "An effort is on to spread anarchy across India. Dimaagi Naxals, Maoists and all forces including the cockroaches and termites are into this. We will not let anyone divide India," Adhikari said. The Matuas, a part of the large Dalit Namasudra community, came as refugees from East Pakistan after the 1947 Partition and after the creation of Bangladesh in 1971 to escape persecution....